SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 According to authorities, officers were called Friday morning to the U.S. Post Office on Stafford Avenue after a man allegedly phoned in threats, saying he intended to harm federal workers and his supervisor.<\/p>\n
The situation led to a heightened police presence in the area, including responses at both the post office and the nearby federal courthouse. A drone was deployed as part of the search, and officials issued a Code Red alert, urging the public to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
Police say the suspect was later taken into custody without incident at the Taylor Post Office along South Main Street.<\/p>\n
Court records identify the man as John P. Lepka, 39, of Lake Ariel. He is charged with terroristic threats and harassment.<\/p>\n
Lepka was unable to post $50,000 bail and remains in the Lackawanna County Prison.<\/p>\n
He is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing later this month.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not released additional details about the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 According to authorities, officers were called Friday morning to the U.S. Post Office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-169560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}